Liu Zhao also glared at his son, Liu Lun stood aside with his neck shrunk, but the Liu family has always been democratic, so although he shrank his neck, he still looked at his grandfather with wide eyes.

Liu Daqian sighed regretfully, "A Lang is the one who can read the most in our family. In the past, A Ling taught him to read. When he came back from studying, he squatted in the yard and took branches to practice calligraphy stroke by stroke. Live, at night he used the moonlight to make gestures in the yard by himself. In the past, our family was incompetent and could not send him to school. At that time, the Mu family couldn’t even gather together a bunch of blog posts, let alone opportunities like yours. Yes. Children, you must cherish happiness."

"Big brother, send people to the academy. If anyone doesn't study hard, they will be caught and beaten." Liu Erqian glared at his grandson and nephew fiercely and said, "Do you know how many bundles of repairs we have to pay you every year? One person is five taels of silver a year, plus pen, ink, paper, and inkstone, one person is ten taels a year, three people are thirty taels, and you can’t even earn half of the silver after you sell it.”

Liu Daqian glared at his younger brother, turned his head to the three children standing in front of him and said, "Your second grandfather's words are not rude, if this money comes from our family, it will be spent as it is spent, you are reborn in our family, it is fine , No matter what, it's all from our Liu family, the money is spent for you, it's not worth it even if it's a debt, but this money is given to you by your cousin, thirty-two per year, based on what I know about your cousin , in order not to let you lose face in the academy, I'm afraid I will buy you fabrics to make some new clothes. After three or four years, even a hundred and fifty taels can't stop it. I know how much a hundred and fifty taels can do. ?"

Liu Daqian met the eyes of several children and said, "I can build two good houses, I can buy two cows, I can buy six pigs, and I can eat meat every other day for half a year."

Several children opened their mouths, and even the eldest Liu Rong widened his eyes and was stunned. Liu Daqian's conversion was the most intuitive.

The adults often talk about the poor soil house in the family, which is always leaking rain and air. I'm afraid it won't live for many years. Then they worry about building a house, saying that they have worked hard for ten years, and they don't know if they can build a house...

There are also cows. No one in the whole village has cows. If anyone has a cow, it is a middle peasant, and their life is much better than them.

Pigs, they have them at home, but when they get a little piglet back, the grandmothers will lose sleep once, because the family is either going to go for a few bags of food, or they will run out of money.

Meat, if my cousin hadn’t sent some meat to their house every once in a while, they would have one meal every half a year just like everyone else’s..

Liu Rong and Liu Yun looked at the brothers with envy and sympathy in their eyes.

The three boys standing in the middle felt a lot of pressure. Liu Lun wanted to express that he didn't want to study anymore.

Liu Daqian seemed to know what his grandson was thinking, he pulled him over and touched his head, and asked, "Arun, how do you think your father and your uncle's days are?"

Liu Lun's eyes were full of confusion and he said, "Dad and Uncle are very good. They have a much better life than Uncle Tang. They are always envious of Dad and Uncle."

"That's because your father and your uncle have your cousin's help. If they didn't, they would be just like your cousin, not even your cousin," Liu Daqian said when he saw that the children were not satisfied. Putting on a posture, he said: "Don't look at our family's life is better than other people's families now, the truth is, our family is not the weakest, but it is also ranked at the bottom."

Several children didn't believe it, Liu Rong whispered: "Grandpa, we have new clothes to wear, and we can eat several meals of meat every month."

Liu Erqian asked with a smile, "Rong'er, where did the new clothes and meat come from?"

Liu Rong paused, and Liu Jin, the youngest sitting on the kang, raised his hand and said, "I know, I know, my cousin gave it. Last time my cousin gave me a wooden horse."

Liu Erqian hugged three-year-old Liu Jin in his arms and said, "Don't you know what your younger brother knows? It was given by your cousin, not ours."

Liu Daqian continued: "Look, the village and the grandfather's family have built a new house, and the fourth grandfather's family is also planning to build a house. Our family has so much less expenditure, and your cousin is helping, why can't we build a new house? house?"

Liu Lun thought about it, "Is it because our family has no foundation?"

Liu Daqian nodded and sighed, "It's because our family has no foundation."

Liu Yun was very unconvinced, "Why does our family have no foundation?"

"Because our ancestors were poor, your grandfather and second grandfather are not capable, and your father and uncles are not very promising either."

"Father," Liu Ting cried out in embarrassment, and Liu Daqian glared at him, "Am I not telling the truth?"

"Your great-grandfather and great-grandmother went early, when I was younger than Allen," the children widened their eyes. Although there was a lot of noise at home, the adults also told them how hard they had been in the past, but in the past They really don't know about it, and adults also deliberately avoid a few children.

Several children became very interested when they heard that the grandfather was going to talk about ancient times.

Liu Daqian did not let them down and said: "Your second grandfather is a little older than Ayang, and there are your second aunts and third aunts. Your third aunts were only two years old at the time. Your aunt is pulling the big one, at that time, your big aunt was a year younger than Rong’er, think about how hard she had to work to pull us up.”

Several children looked at Liu Rong's small arms and calves, and shuddered at the thought that they had no parents or elders at home and could only rely on such a young sister.

"At that time, we had nothing to eat, and we even ate mud when we were hungry. The Liu family had only two acres of dry land. Your aunt just kept it, and when your second grandfather and I grew up, she married us your grandma. And the second grandmother, married your two aunts again. After several marriages, not only did the two bags of food that were saved with great effort be spent, but also a huge debt was owed. Your aunt even delayed the marriage for us. I can't let her pay these debts, do you know when our family's debts will be paid off?"

Several children shook their heads.

Liu Daqian sighed: "Your eldest brother only paid it off when he was six years old."

Several children were speechless, "Is this too long?"

Liu Erqian glared at him and said, "What is it? It's not bad if you can pay it off. Your father and the others don't need to spend money to marry a daughter-in-law? You don't need to spend money to give birth to your mother? And to raise you stinky boys, do you think your children are children? Are you able to support yourself from birth? Ask your mother, how many children in the village die every year, what you ate and drank when you were young, and the money you spent when you were sick, don’t you have to pay your grandfather and me to borrow it? Can you pay it off? Even if it's good."